Batmobile sells for £2.7m at auction

56-year-old Batman enthusiast described getting his hands on the keys to the car from the original 1960s TV series as "a dream come true

The original Batmobile from the 1960s TV series has sold for an enormous $4.2m (£2.7m) at auction.

The car appeared in the American Batman series, starring Adam West and Burt Ward, which ran between 1966 and 1968.

Batman and Robin's vehicle of choice went on public sale for the first time on Saturday in Scottsdale, Arizona, and was quickly snapped up by avid fan Rick Champagne. The 56-year-old Batman fan called getting the keys to his very own Batmobile "a dream come true."

The adapted 1955 Lincoln Futura was sold by George Barris, who has owned the car ever since he transformed it for the 1960s show. Barris originally bought the car for $1 in 1966 before installing the Batman-worthy gadgets that appeared in the TV series. Barris said of the car: "With every pow, bang, wow, wee, I wanted the car to do something just like the actors. The car had to be a star on its own. And it became one."

Ex-pen-sive! This Imperial Dalek featured in 1988 Doctor Who story Remembrance of the Daleks and was the first to dispel the myth that the fascist pepper pots could not negotiate stairs. It was sold in 2010 for £20,400

Front and centre: the jacket in the middle belonged to Captain George Mainwaring (aka Arthur Lowe) of the Walmington-on-Sea Home Guard in Dad’s Army. In 2007, a fan paid £3,120 for it. Stupid boy? Not at all - its value is only likely to increase

The not-so-dynamic duo: Del Boy (David Jason) and Rodney (Nicholas Lyndhurst) inadvertently foiled a crime while wearing these Batman and Robin costumes in Only Fools and Horses. They were sold at auction (no dodgy deals here) for £10,200 in 2007

As expensive as a very expensive thing: in 2009, Lord Edmund Blackadder’s costume, worn by Rowan Atkinson in Blackadder II, went for the impressive sum of £14,400

Very good, m'Lady: this Lady Penelope marionette, used in the original series of Thunderbirds, fetched an aristocratic £33,600 at auction on 29 June 2011. F-A-B!